They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes - Chapter 40

The conch was not found.

It wasn’t anyone’s problem, it was Conch who was too impatient, too impatient, too eager to be discovered at a glance.

Although he obediently hid behind the reef, he was afraid of being discovered, so he put a lot of star lights around and drew the biggest smiley face on the beach.

Those shining stars were too conspicuous and too unaware of their precautions, and attracted the cold and dark currents hiding in the trenches.

The vicious undercurrent rushed up from the bottom of the sea, snatched the conch, and pushed the smiling face clean.

…

Even so, this incident did not lead to any bad results at all.

Of course there will be no misunderstanding, how could there be a misunderstanding. Luo Chi believes in her aunt more than herself, and Aunt Ren likes Xiao Huo Miao more than anything.

It’s just because both of them are too worried about each other and don’t want to make each other feel uncomfortable or unhappy at all.

Because I care too much, I want to repair all the scars that have been stabbed by the world, so naturally I have infinite patience and caution.

Aunt Ren stood behind the reef and thought to the empty beach. Xiao Huo Miao has encountered too many bad things, and he must still feel nervous and dare not speak out what he wants bravely, so he must be patient and not in a hurry.

Luo Chi curled up on the bed, tossing and turning with his arms on his back. Aunt Ren has had too many troubles recently. Of course, such a big thing as bringing him home must be considered very carefully and fully. You have to wait slowly, not in a hurry.

Don’t be in a hurry, take your time, don’t be in a hurry.

Until Aunt Ren suddenly fell ill without warning.

Aunt Ren was lying on the hospital bed, sighing because she was bored and bombing the infusion tube, and finally completely swayed her heart and pulled Luo Chi, who was busy taking care of herself, over.

…Until Aunt Ren nodded his head and asked when Conchli’s wish would be fulfilled, Luo Chi suddenly realized in a stunned sense that something must have gone wrong.

He buried the conch, but failed to reach Aunt Ren.

Something must have gone wrong.

Only then did Luo Chi realize that something was wrong.

“Little squirrel.” Aunt Ren didn’t know yet, so she knocked on his forehead to examine him, “Where did you hide the conch?”

When he was first sent to Ren’s house, the ten-year-old Luo Chi was easily disturbed. When you receive something you like, you never want to use it, so you must hide it all.

Aunt Ren was moved by his diligent spirit of hoarding treasures, so she simply found a tree in the garden and hid a super secret safe for him on the tree.

At that time, Luo Chi had something good in his arms, and quietly ran up to the tree when no one was there.

Aunt Ren stood under the tree, her stomach hurt from laughing, and as soon as he teased him, she deliberately said that she raised a little squirrel.

The little squirrel stood still, his heart beating so fast that it almost burst through his chest.

…

Must not be in a hurry.

Aunt Ren’s illness must not have violent mood swings.

In a few seconds, Luo Chi quickly figured out what to do.

The little squirrel buried his head and was honestly trained, and apologized in a low voice, saying that he liked the conch so much that he was reluctant to bury it in the sand. There is only one wish that is too small, I am afraid of wasting it, so I keep thinking about it.

Aunt Ren was angry, laughing and distressed, pinched his face, and asked him to stop writing letters and put a bunch of small notes in it.

Of course Auntie Ren knew that Luo Chi knew everything, so she didn’t even make up the story.

Aunt Ren assured him openly that he could write whatever he wanted, write whatever he wanted, and his aunt would help him turn all the little notes into truth.

The little squirrel also blushed and repented, and stood at attention and vowed to hand over the conch within three days.

…

After dark, Luo Chi took care of Aunt Ren to sleep, ran back to the beach alone, and turned over the beach.

With a flashlight, he searched for the conch shells that he could see on the beach, but each one was empty. He thought that it had been too long, maybe it was brought into the sea by the high tide, so he went back and forth in the sea to find it.

It’s been so long that it’s normal to not find it.

Inside each conch shell is empty, only sea water, aquatic plants and wet sand.

The conch that Aunt Ren gave him was lost.

Don’t let Auntie Ren know.

Luo Chi’s right leg was a little unruly again, he stumbled and fell into the sea. The words I heard the doctor say in the hospital during the day finally came out of my mind.

Luo Chi fell into the sea without moving.

It wasn’t until all the water vapor in his body was flushed out that he sat up abruptly, wiped the seawater off his face with force, and gasped for breath.

He shouldn’t have made that kind of wish, he should have made a wish for Aunt Ren to live a long and healthy life.

How could he forget to make a wish to let his aunt live a hundred years.

The conch was lost.

Can’t tell Aunt Ren, can’t let Aunt Ren know.

Luo Chi was sitting in that piece of sea water. He noticed that the sea was rising. He stood up with all his strength, and dragged his right leg to the shore before the tide passed him.

“Don’t be afraid.” Luo Chi taught his right leg, “Don’t be afraid.”

He pressed that leg hard, and whispered to himself, “There is a way.”

Anything can be done.

He’s going to figure it out.

He probably listened to his lesson, and that leg had no other problems except that the skin was broken when it fell, and the seawater was soaked in burning pain.

Luo Chi returned to the beach and collected all the conch shells that he had thrown away.

He carefully compared them with a flashlight, found the one that resembled the most in his memory, and took it back to his hut.

After all, the edges and corners of the conch shell are slightly different. He carefully cut out the slightly different parts with a knife, smoothed it with sandpaper, and washed it in water to make it extra clean.

He also had to take care of Aunt Ren, so he washed himself with hot water, carefully treated the wound, cooked himself a warm meal, and put on comfortable home clothes.

He takes care of himself so that Aunt Ren can rest assured.

Then Luo Chi took the conch, sat under the lamp, and made a wish with all his heart.

He stuffed it with little crumpled notes. If Aunt Ren is happy, Aunt Ren needs to be healthy, Aunt Ren needs to take a good rest after work, Aunt Ren needs to recover quickly, and Aunt Ren should stop worrying about anything.

Luo Chi sat at the table and checked all the notes. He also felt that it was impossible to pass through Aunt Ren, so he held the pen again and tried to make up a few more things about himself.

…to live to be eighty years old.

He wanted Aunt Ren to live to be 111 years old, so he lived to be 80 years old so that they could fall asleep together.

Happy happy happy.

I found a lot of people who liked me, and a lot of happy things, which made Aunt Ren feel at ease.

Find someone you like the most and take it back to Aunt Ren to see.

Grow up quickly, become an adult sooner, get a driver’s license, and drive with Aunt Ren to travel.

I learned to drive a boat. It seems that I also need a driver’s license to drive a boat. When the time comes, I will buy a small boat and take Aunt Ren to go for a ride at sea.

Aunt Ren also wants to do skydiving, bungee jumping and deep-sea surfing. He is a little afraid of the deep sea, but he can swim with him, and he thinks he will soon be able to stop being afraid.

Luo Chi wrote for the whole night, and the next morning, he ran back to the hospital with the conch.

Aunt Ren leaned against the head of the bed, looking at the small notes one by one.

Luo Chi’s heart almost jumped out of his throat.

Fortunately, Aunt Ren didn’t seem to notice anything unusual about the conch. She just read the notes and happily praised the brand-new and best-quality surfboard that Luo Chi had brought for a long time.

Aunt Ren didn’t ask anything more, she just hugged Luo Chi, chatted with Luo Chi softly, and slowly explained a lot to her little Huo Miao.

Aunt Ren said that the most important thing in a person’s life is to live happily, not to live long.

Aunt Ren said that sometimes, some things are unreasonable and unavoidable. Well if it happens, it’s not anyone’s fault.

Aunt Ren said that the surfboard is so good, it must be taken away. She likes the sea the most, and can’t wait to sleep in the sea forever.

Aunt Ren told him that if Xiao Huo Miao was to live well, she had to live well, otherwise her aunt would be sad.

…

The cruise ship was silent in the lights of the harbour.

The wind lifted the curtains a little, and the pale moonlight slid over the bed.

Luo Chi gritted his teeth in the unconscious chaos, he curled up in a dazed way, and buried himself in the cold moon.

Probably treating it as sea water, Luo Chi didn’t say a word, just letting the water vapor seep out from under the tightly closed eyelashes.

Minglu turned on the switch of the oxygen generator and said in a low voice, “Sir.”

The current situation is not suitable for waking Luo Chi rashly.

Luo Chi, who was trapped in the fog, didn’t care about his body. Although he didn’t resist the treatment, he just did it because Mr. Shadow asked him to take these medicines and get these injections.

But tonight, the memory that was accidentally brought up by the conch, told him that in such a chaotic drowsiness, he still struggled to exert a little strength to protect the aunt Ren in that memory from being sad.

…to have such a vivid emotional response must be much better than that dazed calm.

Ming Weiting nodded, he made his movements lighter, and hugged Luo Chi out of the cold sweat little by little.

Luo Chi was trapped in the dream, his shoulders, backs and arms instinctively tensed, but because the strength that this body could build up was too weak, only a slight trembling overflowed from his muscles and bones.

Ming Weiting wanted to massage and relax for him, but every joint of Luo Chi was stiff and his body was so cold that he couldn’t really pick a place to start.

So he took Luo Chi into his arms and made every part of Luo Chi close to him.

After getting along day and night these days, Luo Chi was already familiar with his breath, and even if he fell into a nightmare, he would no longer resist. Before he knew it, the half of his body that was leaning against him began to become warm and soft.

Minglu adjusted the oxygen flow rate, walked over lightly, and handed the mask to Mingwei Pavilion.

Ming Weiting raised his hand and touched the half of Luo Chi’s cheek on his shoulder with the back of his hand.

Feeling that the temperature there had warmed up, he carefully turned Luo Chi over in his arms, took the mask, and put it on for Luo Chi: “Who made it?”

“The son of the Ren family.” Ming Lu’s voice was very low, “He… should not know what that is.”

Ren Chenbai didn’t want to see someone like Luo Chi, and didn’t want anyone to give Luo Chi a gift.

Ming Lu even suspected that even taking revenge for Mrs. Ren was just a pretense—perhaps even Ren Chen Bai himself didn’t know it was a pretense.

Ren Chenbai was just using this kind of thing as an excuse to destroy Luo Chi with more peace of mind.

He stopped Luo Chi from saving himself, destroyed what Luo Chi cared about, and blocked all the goodwill around Luo Chi… just to put out the fire that was too hot for him.

Ren Chenbai had probably long since fallen into some kind of strong and twisted paranoia. He dealt with Luo Chi unscrupulously, and even forgot what his original intention was.

Ren Chenbai has probably forgotten that he started doing these things because he felt uneasy.

He found that Luo Chi didn’t have to depend on him or the Ren family to live at all – he finally found that Luo Chi couldn’t be hidden at all. The fire attracted attention wherever it went, so bright and hot that he felt stinging just looking at it.

Ren Chenbai began to be strongly disturbed and irritable. He always felt that Luo Chi would leave sooner or later.

Ren Chenbai always felt that Luo Chi would not stay, would not stay in such a boring place, would not stay with a person like him… He destroyed Luo Chi’s things in a rage, throwing away Luo Chi could have received one’s gift.

But he didn’t know he also threw a conch.

…

Ming Weiting understood what Ming Lu meant.

“I have informed the other party about this.” Minglu whispered, “He will know what he did.”

Ming Lu made arrangements before returning to the cruise ship. He lowered his hands and continued to say, “He was not sent to their hospital. President Xun doesn’t mind taking in one more patient.”

Ren Chenbai’s car can’t get to his family’s hospital, unless there are still people in the Ren family who are unclear and refuse to give up a half-mad defunct heir.

…The Ren family’s minds are of course very clear.

Ming Lu checked the news, he had already received Xun Zhen’s reply, and raised his head: “Sir, do you want him to wake up?”

“No hurry.” Ming Weiting said.

Minglu waited for his orders, but Mingweiting stopped talking.

Ming Weiting lowered his gaze, he touched Luo Chi’s hair, and put the new conch that had just been made back into Luo Chi’s palm.

He could understand why Luo Chi didn’t want Mrs. Ren to know about it anyway.

Even if this incident itself was just a mishap, it happened to hit Mrs. Ren’s illness, so that this misunderstanding finally diverted fate in the coldest and cruelest direction, and it will no longer be compensated and corrected. Opportunity.

If Mrs. Ren really learned about it during her illness, even if she was open-minded and optimistic, her mood would definitely fluctuate violently—a wish that was impossible to achieve at that time.

The owner of the Luo family can throw a son out of sight and out of mind, but he will not tolerate Ren Shuangmei actually taking this child home and becoming a member of the Ren family. Call people to point and ridicule.

Ren Shuangmei’s body is the biggest crux. If she is healthy, no matter how much trouble the Luo family makes, she will be unceremoniously retaliated by her.

According to Ren Shuangmei’s temper, maybe she will deliberately bring Luo Chi to appear on various occasions attended by the Luo family, push Luo Chi to the most dazzling and most eye-catching place, and let everyone in the Luo family see that they are being treated coldly by them. What a wonderful child.

But Minglu has already gone to check, Ren Shuangmei was diagnosed with aortic dissection at that time. The location is too bad, and the risk of surgery is so high that there is almost no chance of luck, and it is necessary to rest in bed, and the slightest carelessness will be life-threatening.

Ren Shuangmei didn’t want her family to cry and cry and be frightened and feared, and asked people to suppress the diagnosis results, but she couldn’t hide Luo Chi, who was taking care of her in the hospital.

It was probably at this time that Luo Chi taught himself without a teacher for the first time, and hid a part of himself quickly and very secretly.

…

In that state, Luo Chi no longer has the ability to sort out all his memories.

Luo Chi didn’t want Aunt Ren to be sad because of that incident, so he could only ask Mr. Shadow to help and hide it from Aunt Ren.

Luo Chi didn’t know, but Mr. Shadow was there that day.

“I should disembark.” Ming Weiting said, “Behind the reef is a good location.”

He might catch Ren Chenbai who was making trouble there, tie up people and throw them into the sea, and then rearrange those star lights.

The shadows behind the reef are deep, and it’s perfect to stand there and watch a blazing fire.

Mingweiting was not in the habit of disembarking at that time. In fact, he couldn’t imagine what kind of development that would be, so he thought for a while, and still held Luo Chi’s hand.

Luo Chi’s nightmare seemed to be over.

Whether it was because he was too tired, or because he felt safe in the familiar breath, Luo Chi fell asleep and his body relaxed.

Ming Weiting held his hand, and he found that Luo Chi didn’t have the habit of holding on to anything in his dreams, and that hand was always curled up without any effort.

Perhaps it was also because, from a long time ago, there was no longer anything to hold Luo Chi.

The culprit that caused all this, until now, doesn’t even know what he has done or destroyed.

“That person.” Ming Weiting asked, “Doesn’t he have a dream?”

Minglu was stunned for a moment: “Ren-what do you want him to dream of?”

Xun Zhen is looking at Ren Chenbai in person, it is not difficult to make Ren Chenbai hallucinate.

The person’s current mental state was already extremely unstable. As long as he was stimulated and properly guided, he could fall into a dream that was difficult to wake up on his own.

Ming Weiting took Luo Chi’s hand and the conch full of shells together, shaking it gently.

The conch rustled in Luo Chi’s palm.

Ming Lu suddenly reacted: “I’ll arrange it.”

…how could the culprit not see it for himself?

Go to that dream and see with your own eyes how good the future could have been—a future that even Chen Bai himself will feel intensely happy and contented with.

Ren Chenbai took great pains, and would rather destroy what Luo Chi wanted, and it was nothing more than this future.

As it should be, as it should be.

The possibility of being completely destroyed by his own hands.

How can you not see clearly in your dreams and wake up so easily?

…

The original conch should have been picked up by Ren Shuangmei.

Ren Shuangmei, who picked up the conch, would run over all the way and hold Xiao Huo Miao up.

Luo Chi might be playing the guitar at the time, he might be startled, he might blushed, his eyes widened and he didn’t dare to move.

Ren Shuangmei would hold Xiao Huo Miao with a smile and shout loudly that her wish would come true, she would take Luo Chi home without saying a word, and she would unceremoniously let everyone in the Luo family get out of the way—Luo Chi would really become a family with them.

The people around would applaud and cheer loudly, would rush over to touch Luo Chi’s head, would praise him for being sensible, and praise him for being smart.

The bonfire party will definitely become more lively, and perhaps this liveliness will spread to the pier not far away.

Luo Chi would probably be scalded into a small kettle in Aunt Ren’s arms, and maybe he would be brought to tears by the strong surprise that seemed to plunge into a whole new life, and then Ren Shuangmei would shave the bridge of his nose with a smile.

But no matter what, Luo Chi will be happy in the end.

Luo Chi would jump to the highest place, sing loudly and recklessly, and strum his guitar strings amidst people’s laughter and beats—what else could he fear?

He was taken home. He was so happy to fly.

That would be a completely different world line.

In that world line, that hot, dazzling bright color will spread all the way along the sea, hitting the ship moored there.